Aberaman

Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century. Most of the industry has now disappeared and a substantial proportion of the working population travel to work in Cardiff and the M4 corridor. Many residents also work in the nearby towns of Aberdare and Pontypridd.

==History== ===Early Aberaman=== Located to the south of Aberdare, the area that would become Aberaman was predominantly agricultural land until the early nineteenth century. From at least 1524 Aberaman was the home of the Mathew family, who owned land throughout Glamorgan and who came to prominence in the seventeenth century. In 1637, William Mathew presented the bell to St. John's Church and three members of the family served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan. In 1788 the Aberaman Estate passed to three sisters, Eleanor, Rebecca and Maria Eleanora. Eleanor Mathew is remembered as a great philanthropist who endowed the almshouses of Aberdare to accommodate four poor persons.